On Tue, 06 May 2008 06:45:47 +1000, B J Foster wrote:

> Rod Speed wrote:
>> B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>>> Alan Parkington wrote
>>
>>>> From
>>>> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/...D?OpenDocument
>>
>>>> Telstra Chairman Donald McGauchie has hit out at the Optus-backed G9 consortium's renewed interest in building the
>>>> national broadband
>>>> network, declaring Telstra the only viable bidder.
>>
>>> Telstra is planning to start in the cities.
>>
>> So is labor.
>>
>>> The government wants broadband in the bush.
>>
>> That govt has gone, stupid.
>
> The *labor* government wants 98% coverage, speedy boy, how do you
> suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?

By moving into the bush once the cities are covered, perhaps?